President Muhammadu Buhari has approved a special salary scale for teachers on the occasion of this year’s World Teachers’ Day, WTD, which holds on Monday.
Also, the number of years of service for teachers has been increased from 35 to 40 years.
The announcement was made on Monday by the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, who represented the president at an event to mark the occasion.
The occasion is held on October 5 of every year across the world since 1994 to celebrate the anniversary of the adoption of the 1966 ILO/UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers.
The recommendation is said to have set the benchmarks regarding the rights and responsibilities of teachers and standards for their initial preparation and further education, recruitment, employment, and teaching and learning conditions.
The recommendation concerning the Status of Higher-Education Teaching Personnel was adopted in 1997 to complement the 1966 Recommendation by covering teaching and research personnel in higher education.
With the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goal 4 on education, and the dedicated target (SDG 4.c) recognising teachers as key to the achievement of the Education 2030 agenda, WTD has become the occasion to mark progress and reflect on ways to counter the remaining challenges for the promotion of the teaching profession.
World Teachers’ Day is co-convened in partnership with UNICEF, the International Labour Organisation and Education International.
